Sen. Kelly Ayotte voted to block a billion-dollar veteran jobs program. Why did she abandon our veterans despite their high rate of unemployment and homelessness?

New Jersey has been given $300 million dollars to fight foreclosures in the state. Gov. Christie has only seen fit to release $4 million since the grant was given in 2011. New Jersey has the second highest foreclosure rate in the nation and struggling homeowners could be helped by using these federal dollars. Gov. Christie needs to be told to help New Jersey homeowners.

Patients face a greater risk of revision surgery without a means to detect or eliminate faulty devices from entering our quality control system. Such is the case of our veteran. See how you can help: www.caringheartsusa.com

Non-educators have made the decision to add hours and days of school. Young students need time to relax and recharge in order to be creative, deep thinkers. After homework, they have little if no time for relaxation or creative play. With both a longer school day and year, students are not at their best for learning.

School lunches are now too small and students aren't getting enough energy, especially those who are poor and can't afford barely anything for food at home, and those who are constanly active. Some better suggestions for developing healthier eating habits and fighting obesity: Snacks for students of all ages that include fruits, veggies, grains, etc., investing in school sports and many other "let's get moving" type activities, and so on. Also: Stop wasteful spending on foam plates in schools! It's bad for the enviroment and buying regular plates could save schools thousands of dollars per year, helping schools use more money on textbooks, new equipment, and much more. Plus, it is our right to eat how we choose, is it not?

Demands that Eric Holder dispatch federal poll watchers to states with voter-suppression laws and have representatives at all private electronic vote count facilities.

Are you outraged that Rep. Paul Ryan justified Mitt Romney paying a lower tax rate than middle-class Americans by saying he created jobs? Romney has done nothing but outsource jobs putting thousands of Americans out of work! He approves of distorting the truth by taking sound bites from President Obama's speeches as if the president was implying something different than what he really said and claims he pulls false ads!

I believe that with today's fractured parties it is time to require a candidate to get a majority of votes cast to win an election. There are too many cases where a spoiler candidate allows a candidate to win an election where they would have been second even a distant second if the spoiler candidate was not in the race.

There has been voting manipulation since the 2004 Election. Watch this video, and sign the petition to make sure that the electronic voting machines are not rigged. Thank you. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3555094491715905699

The right for two loving people, regardless of race or sexuality, to marry and receive the same benefits as heterosexual citizens do.

Employers more and more are requiring credit checks on potential employees as a condition of hire. While reaslizing that certain josbs where the handling of company pay outs may be entiltled to run credit checks, the vast majority of companies are taking unnecessary adantage of those of us whose credit has been damaged by the housing crash and loss of employment.

Our son, Nick, passed away unexpectedly, two months before he was set to graduate, after five years of engineering school. His life was just beginning at 24 years of age. He was an honor roll student and employed as a writing center tutor, helping other students with their papers. He was selected to attend the Undergraduate Research Day at the Missouri Capitol to share his research on space trash with lawmakers. He worked very hard at everything he tried. Because Nick was considered out-of-state his first two years in college, tuition was very high and we had to take out additional cash loans thru MOHELA, Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority. These loans were taken out for the 2006-2007 school years and interest accumulates daily. We have contacted MOHELA repeatedly and escalated the matter, to see if these loans could be forgiven but they will not budge. Retired and on a fixed income, we should not have to worry about how we are going to repay such large sums of money. We recently read about other families that have been in this same situation through the online petition process and SignOn.org. Because light was shed on this issue, Citibank has changed their status and has agreed to forgive student debt, when the student has died. As of January 2011, CITI made a policy change where any death of a primary borrower would be forgiven upon receipt of the death certificate and review of the case. Could MOHELA do the right thing and change their policy? MOHELA should institute a policy change of student loan forgiveness when the student dies and stop going after family members. Please help by signing this petition. To make a difference, we need as many signatures as possible, so please share this petition with all of your friends or post it to Facebook.